Vicent Viel has been talking to you about migration and we read an article in El País about this topic last week. Rocío María Cerdán, a student from 1ESO E, found this great interactive map. In order to understand migration flows, it might be helpful to know some data that can explain why people migrate: social indicators, economy and population provide answers to understand migration flows. You just need a click with the mouse and facts and figures appear in this map.

Check if you understand the aspects that are analysed in social indicators

in economy

and in population

HOMEWORK: TUESDAY 4TH OCTOBER. Now take two countries, a developing one and a rich developed one. Use the interactive map and compare data. Write your answers in your notebook and post those you find interesting to the blog.

In his first post this year, Vicent, your History teacher, posted about mega cities and gave you a link so you could find out the huge number of people that live nowadays in conurbations, megacities and metropolitan areas.

Let’s consider the amount of energy they consume at night. We’ll be orbiting the earth at night. We shall reflect on the different patterns they reflect. Can you draw any conclusions from this variation in patterns?

Have a look at a you tube video that zooms in different cities at night. The images are beautiful and they give you a different perspective of cities too, you will see variations in light patterns. You have already analysed in History lessons different city structures. This time you will see what cities look like at night, depending on light. You will have an unusual vantage point: thanks to technological advances you will be orbiting the earth on a sattelite. Enjoy!

The narrator tells us the name of the city, the country and makes some comments on the pattern of lights and the colours.

I do not want you to do any difficult homework, it is a long video, just concentrate on the beauty of the images and get used to how cities are pronounced in English.

I have included a list of the cities and places that appear in the video and grouped them by continents. You have also a map, to give you the opportunity to situate the cities in the map.

Zurich, Switzerland

Milan, Italy

Athens, Greece

Antwerp, Belgium

Madrid, Spain

London, England

Cairo Egypt

the pyramids

the Nile

Tel Aviv Israel

Jerusalem

Riyahd, Saudi Arabia

Jedda, Saudi Arabia

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

oil field fires near Kuwait city

North west coast of India

Karachi, Pakistan

Manila, Philippines

Yangon, Myanmar

Hong Kong, China

Busan, South Korea

Fukuoka, Japan

a fleet of fishing boats in the Korea Strait

Tokio, Japan

Nagoya, Japan

Brisbane, Australia

Sao Paolo, Brazil

Mexico City, Mexico

El Paso, Texas

Phoenix, Arizona

San Francisco Bay area, USA

Miami, Florida

Huston, Texas

Los Angeles and San Diego, USA

Wahshington DC, USA

Las Vegas, USA

Here follows some of the sentences you will hear in the video:

the cities of the Middle East are multicoloured and strikingly beautiful

Cities in Europe display a network of roads that radiate outwards like glowing spider webs

Some north American cities display a clear North,South, East,West grid pattern

We now have a database of 400.000 images of cities at night

Homework: Tuesday 26th September

Choose a couple of cities you had not heard of and try to locate them in the map.

Practice the pronunciation .

Send a post to the blog with the 2 cities you have learnt to situate on the map.

Which cities, if any, did you miss in the list?

Any other comments?

Did you like the images?

Did you learn any geography?

Are all the cities that appear on the video reflected in the map that opens this post?

Which continent/continents are less represented?

Which place would you like to visit and why?

Remember not to repeat the same answers. Copy your answer in your notebook too.